Matthew Wayne Selznick

Sometimes I play with those blog memes people send around. Here’s one from Cydniey Buffers:

Take the first line of the first entry you wrote in each month of 2006, for an overview of your year. Okay, I’m game:

January:
I’m in the preliminary stages of writing my second novel.

February:
Okay! For the first time since we moved into this house, four years ago, I feel like my office is someplace that says something about me.

March:
I’m just taking a moment here to ask you to visit my friend Cydniey Buffers’ E-bay store, where she’s selling hand-crafted jewelry, books, and other crafty things.

April:
Tonight, as I work on Shaper’s World stuff, I’m digging a streaming webcast — it’s Radio Nigel.

May:
Thanks to Mur for tipping me on this one.

June:
Some folks have been after me to blog about my first-ever booksigning, which went down this past Saturday.

July:
Distracted.

August:
Episode two of the Sonitotum podcast, “Grief Delayed,” is now available.

September:
“The Dragon Page With Class” is a podcast with its focus on public education, hosted by two middle-school teachers.

October:
So I reckon I should eulogize the bankrupt and soon to be liquidated Tower Records a little… by which I mean, “use the demise of the record store chain to reflect on my own formative years…”

November:
I need to do some thinking on the keyboard.

December:
Sometimes I play with those blog memes people send around.

Wow. That was… worthless. Maybe I don’t blog enough?

Ah well.

Okay, maybe Idolator is worth subscribing to, just so long as they keep letting the world know about whack-a-doodle stuff like this (YouTube link)

I’m a Lifehacker fan, so when I read there that Gawker Media was launching a music blog, I thought I’d check it out.

The tag on the front page was promising:

“When the internet came, we overthrew the pasty white tastemakers, the duplicitious music marketers and the manufactured pop idols. And then they all came back. This is Idolator. We’re so disappointed.”

I can relate on the disappointment front. Apparently Idolator isn’t so disappointed they won’t take ad money for Madonna’s clothing company. On the other hand, thanks to this blog, I found out about the hella-awesome Paris Hilton review in my previous post.

So… wait and see.

One thing, though — the Gawker style manual (whether or not such a thing exists) makes Lifehacker, Idolator, and, um, that dirty blog they run (even though it’s missing from their titles list??) all sound like they’re written by the same robo-blogger. That’s a little irritating.

Poebtry?

Anyway, this from Quinn Norton:

“Radio is that bit of the electromagnetic spectrum that sits between brain waves and daylight.”

I could spend a few minutes riffing on that, but I think I’d rather ask: how does that make you feel?

(The article, and the possibility presented therein, is pretty nifty, too.)

It’s always a good idea to let a little time go by before you upgrade anything, especially your personal site’s content management system. Plus, I’m scared to death to screw up my database.

All the same, I went and upgraded this site to Word Press 2.0.whatever. And I think it worked out okay.

Oh, and I got rid of the AdSense ads. I’ve made forty dollars in two years… so why should we all have to look at them any more?

Time for bed.